ABSTRACT
Sir Peter Frederick Strawson (1919-) is a leading figure in the post-war British philosophical scene. Following his war service (1940–6) he was appointed Assistant Lecturer in Philosophy at the University College of North Wales. A year later he moved to University College, Oxford, and in 1968 he succeeded Gilbert Ryle as Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy, a succession that involved a move to Magdalen College. He was knighted in the Queen's Jubilee year 1977. Many of the major moves in the philosophy of the last forty years were initiated by his writings. His books include An Introduction to Logical Theory (1956), Individuals: An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics (1959), The Bounds of Sense (1966), Freedom and Resentment and Other Essays (1974), and Subject and Predicate in Logic and Grammar (1974).
